Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:12:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NelsonC_DISSERT.pdf: 3414305 bytes, checksum: a4b4a76f72715b4b6ad26c138e547946 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-30 / Many environmental ethics thinkers bear the existing ecological crisis is resultig from the fact that both, our thoughts and our actions would be antropocentric. It means that they (our thoughts and our actions) would have the human needs and wishes satisfaction as their only goals. However, a careful investigation about the relationship among humans could perhaps unveil that we are not antropocentric yet. The aim of this work is to enlighten this: whether we think and act in an antropocentric way as it seems to be largely accepted. It seems that we have found a satisfatory answer to the question / Grande parte dos pensadores da ?tica ambiental credita a crise ecol?gica da atualidade ao fato de que tanto o pensamento quanto as a??es dos seres humanos seriam antropoc?ntricos, ou seja, teriam como objetivo ?nico a satisfa??o de necessidades e desejos dos pr?prios homens. No entanto, uma cuidadosa investiga??o sobre a rela??o que os humanos mant?m entre si poderia revelar que talvez n?o sejamos verdadeiramente nem sequer antropoc?ntricos. O objetivo deste trabalho ? tentar trazer ? luz mais conhecimentos sobre isto: se de fato pensamos e agimos de forma antropoc?ntrica, como ? amplamente aceito. E parece que conseguimos nos aproximar de uma resposta satisfat?ria para a quest?o

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:04:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LuzianiaALM.pdf: 966138 bytes, checksum: 1ed864fa3b4954dead72e22f94b9a57d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / This work proposes a transdisciplinary approach that integrates transpersonal psychology exercises with astronomy teaching, seeking to allow one to reintegrate the sky in his/her daily life, expand his/her environmental awareness and eventually experiment the unity between human and cosmos. This proposal intends to collaborate with the supplying of education, which lacks initiatives of this kind, with the promotion of an integration of the scientific knowledge with the human experience that transcends the materialistic and fragmentary objectives of the current educational system. As a result of that lack, the teachers formation is also poor as for an integral and transdisciplinary approach. Besides, we also approached in this research the necessity to propose alternatives so that the educators may work in a more assertive way with the environmental and anthropological crisis in which we are living. Our working hypothesis is that the contents of astronomy, when they are dealt in a holisticanthropological focus and are related with transpersonal psychology practices, can come to be an efficient cultural-academic vehicle, capable of propitiating an expansion of consciousness and changes in the way one conceives the world. Such changes are necessary so that a more solidary, fair and ecologically balanced life may come to exist and prevail in the planet. Part of the collection of data was done through the ethnographic method, once an anthropological interpretation is inextricably associated with this kind of educational intervention, which will naturally include ethno-visions of the universe as well as specific cultural elements. In the beginning the scope of this research was a group of students attending the Astronomy assignment in an undergraduate Geography course (UFRN), in which we accomplished participant observation, half-open interviews and the first experimental practices mentioned. After the evaluation of the first data collected from that initial group, we elaborated an academic extension course, Laboratory in Cosmoeducation, and we offered it to teachers of the 1st and 2nd cycles of the fundamental level of the Alceu Amoroso Lima State School, located in the North Zone of Natal. We prized self-experimentation in that course, so that the teachers could enrich their repertoire of personal experiences, stimulating meditative reflections and eventual changes in the ways of conceiving the world and in their pedagogical practice. The transdisciplinary attitude permeated all our educational action, because this approach transcends the boundaries of disciplines, seeking essentially the integral development of the human being. The process has made us realize that the practice of looking at the sky , as a way of reintegrating it into daily life, provokes a process of expansion of the consciousness and of reintegration of the self in a wider level of environmental interrelation. According to the results, the occurrence of conceptual and existential changes of the world vision of the participant teachers was evident, reassuring ourselves of the idea that the interface between astronomy teaching and the practices of transpersonal psychology can contribute to the recovery of a holistic relationship between the human being and the cosmos and to inspire the arising of a more wide-ranging ethics, based on universal, impartial and sustainable values / Este trabalho prop?e uma abordagem transdisciplinar que integra exerc?cios da psicologia transpessoal e ensino de astronomia, visando possibilitar ao sujeito reincluir o c?u na sua viv?ncia di?ria, expandir sua consci?ncia ambiental e eventualmente vivenciar a unidade ser humano-cosmo. Esta proposta pretende colaborar para suprir a car?ncia em educa??o de iniciativas que promovam uma integra??o do conhecimento cient?fico e da experi?ncia humana que transcenda os objetivos materialistas e fragmentadores do sistema educacional atual. Fruto dessa car?ncia, tamb?m a forma??o dos professores ? prec?ria no que se refere a uma abordagem integralizadora e transdisciplinar. Al?m disto, faz-se necess?rio propor alternativas para que os educadores possam lidar de modo mais assertivo com a crise ambiental e antropol?gica que vivenciamos, o que tamb?m abordamos nesta pesquisa. Nossa hip?tese de trabalho ? que conte?dos de astronomia, quando trabalhados segundo um enfoque hol?stico-antropol?gico e relacionados com pr?ticas da psicologia transpessoal, podem vir a ser um eficiente ve?culo cultural-acad?mico, capaz de propiciar uma expans?o de consci?ncia e mudan?as na concep??o de mundo dos sujeitos em quest?o. Tais mudan?as se fazem necess?rias para que a exist?ncia de uma vida mais solid?ria, justa e ecologicamente equilibrada comece a prevalecer no planeta. O m?todo utilizado em parte da coleta de dados foi o etnogr?fico, uma vez que uma interpreta??o de car?ter antropol?gico est? inextricavelmente associada a este tipo de interven??o educacional, a qual vai envolver de modo natural tanto etno-vis?es do universo, como elementos culturais espec?ficos. O universo desta pesquisa foi inicialmente um grupo de estudantes da disciplina de Astronomia (Curso de Licenciatura em Geografia/UFRN), onde realizamos observa??o participante, entrevistas semi-abertas e as primeiras pr?ticas vivenciais mencionadas. Ap?s o tratamento dos primeiros dados coletados com esse grupo inicial, elaboramos um curso de extens?o universit?ria, Laborat?rio em Cosmoeduca??o, e o oferecemos a professores do 1? e 2? ciclos do n?vel fundamental da Escola Estadual Alceu Amoroso Lima, localizada na zona Norte de Natal. Valorizamos nesse curso a auto-experimenta??o, para que os professores enriquecessem o seu repert?rio de viv?ncias pessoais, estimulando reflex?es meditativas e eventuais mudan?as na concep??o de mundo e na pr?tica pedag?gica dos mesmos. A atitude transdisciplinar permeou toda a nossa a??o educacional, visto que esta abordagem transcende as fronteiras disciplinares, visando essencialmente o desenvolvimento integral do ser humano. O processo nos tem revelado o quanto a pr?tica de olhar o c?u , no sentido de reinclu?-lo na vida di?ria, provoca um processo de expans?o da consci?ncia e de reintegra??o do eu em um patamar de inter-rela??o ambiental mais amplo. De acordo com os resultados alcan?ados, ficou evidente a ocorr?ncia de mudan?as conceituais e existenciais em rela??o ? vis?o de mundo dos professores participantes, refor?ando a id?ia de que a interface entre o ensino de astronomia e as pr?ticas de psicologia transpessoal pode contribuir para a recupera??o de uma rela??o hol?stica entre o ser humano e o cosmo e inspirar o surgimento de uma ?tica mais abrangente, fundamentada em princ?pios universalistas, equ?nimes e sustent?veis